Domniki Manousi from CIGENE successfully defended her PhD thesis on Thursday 11th September 2025. Domniki’s PhD was titled “Genomic Basis of Pathogen Response and Immune Gene Evolution in Atlantic Salmon” and was supervised by CIGENE’s […]
A new popular science article, written by CIGENE’s Simen Sandve and Helle Baalsrud, was published on the Norwegian science communication website Forskning.no last week. The article, titled “Some genes can ‘jump’ but what does this […]
On Tuesday 21st October 2025, CIGENE will host a joint seminar with Oxford Nanopore Technologies. CIGENE hosts Nanopore’s most powerful instrument, the PromethION 24 (P24), and has pioneered agricultural genomic insights for years. Now, they […]
The 76th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP) took place at the end of August 2025 (25th-29th). Many NMBU employees attended the conference in Innsbruk, Austria, including Dag Inge Våge, Thea […]
Last week Tina Berglund defended her Master thesis, and obtained a grade A. Tina’s project was titled ‘In vivo CRISPR-Cas12a knockout of troponin T type 2a in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)’ and was supervised by CIGENE’s […]
On Tuesday 22nd April 2025, Mohammad Ali Noman Reza successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled “Understanding viral resistance in Atlantic salmon cells through transcriptomics and genome editing”. The defense took place digitally via Zoom. Reza […]
The University Board recently awarded the annual prize for best thesis 2024 to Erik Sandertun Røed for his thesis titled “Evaluating genetic tools to inform conservation efforts for the nationally red-listed European lobster (Homarus gammarus).” […]
Last week, CIGENE hosted a seminar by Eivind Undheim from the University of Oslo. Eivind gave a great talk covering his research using animal venoms as a means to improve our understanding of evolution (title […]
The 15th edition of the International Symposium on Genetics in Aquaculture (ISGA XV) took place in Cadiz, Spain from 11-17 May 2025, and CIGENE was represented by PhD students Prabin Sharma-Humagain and Valeria Aguilar Quiñones. […]
Image Caption: Visual representation of the parallel selection on MHC immune genes in aquaculture-raised Atlantic salmon from Norway (right) and North America (left). Despite genome-wide divergence, both populations show selection signals in the same region […]
On Tuesday 22nd April 2025, Dat Nguyen successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled “Improved computational methods for regulatory genomic inference”. The overarching aim of the PhD project was to create more accurate, efficient and scalable […]
Foto: Camilla Wiik Gjerdrum/NMBU Last week, the Norwegian popular science website Forskning.no published an article about the PETRI-fish project, which is led by Matthew Kent at CIGENE and aims to develop lab-based (in vitro) methods […]
The Peder Sather grant program is awarded annually, and supports projects carried out by researchers at UC Berkeley, USA, in collaboration with researchers from eight Norwegian universities. Gareth Gillard and Thomas Harvey from CIGENE were […]
Can probiotics and prebiotics make salmon farming more sustainable? To answer this important question, we first need to learn more about the bacteria living in the salmon gut — who they are and what they […]
NMBU is now hiring for two PhD positions linked to CIGENE. PhD scholarship within comparative evolutionary genomics. Torgeir Hvidsten (Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science) and CIGENE’s Simen Sandve are seeking a PhD student […]